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“A Messiah who actually arrives is no good to anybody. A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.”
― The Yiddish Policemen's Union
― The Yiddish Policemen's Union
“Everyone too busy trying to survive to spend any time creating something new.”
― Leviathan Wakes
― Leviathan Wakes
“Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if possible, prevent the formation, of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own. There is a limit to the legitimate interference of”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
“The application of creative intelligence to a problem, the finding of a solution at once dogged, elegant, and wild, this had always seemed to him to be the essential business of human beings—the discovery of sense and causality amid the false leads, the noise, the trackless brambles of life. And yet he had always been haunted—had he not?—by the knowledge that there were men, lunatic cryptographers, mad detectives, who squandered their brilliance and sanity in decoding and interpreting the messages in cloud formations, in the letters of the Bible recombined, in the spots on butterflies’ wings. One might, perhaps, conclude from the existence of such men that meaning dwelled solely in the mind of the analyst. That it was the insoluble problems—the false leads and the cold cases—that reflected the true nature of things. That all the apparent significance and pattern had no more intrinsic sense than the chatter of an African gray parrot. One might so conclude; really, he thought, one might.”
― The Final Solution
― The Final Solution
“I mean, we think we believe that the gods are wise and just and powerful, but what we really believe is that they are like our father after a long day.”
― Pyramids
― Pyramids
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